Thanks to every single reply in this thread!!!
I have good news and bad:
Bad = Since last November I am back working for the logging company I worked for in the 90's (and they have saws). :greenchainsaw:
Good = I got hired back to drive the 1995 525 Cat skidder I drove in 95 (still running strong with a new motor only 250 hrs back after over 14000 hrs on the original). I borrowed one of the MS460 saws one day last month to cut 2 tree's that the feller buncher left that were breaking the tops out of the pine logs when I pulled them around the turn tree lining them up on the limbing gate. So I cut the 1st tree and had to get back on the skidder to push the tree off my hung saw. -no problem-...
The 460 cut through the 2nd tree with no problem other than, thanks to my trusty skidder, I had a machine to dive under (with the 460, of course), to keep from getting a bad, bad headache. So I'm alive and with all my parts still attached.
So I give up on ever making it as a pro saw man. But I still live for a few situations that make it all worth it.
1 = When I watch our saw men do what I wish I knew how to. (and I do enjoy helping those great guys stay alive in the woods with my machine)!!!
2 = When no man on our crew (including the boss) can get a MS460/660 to run right so they ask me to fix it: and I do.
3 = When someone takes interest in the saws I've collected (CAD
) and has a bunch of questions.
4 = When I can log onto ArboristSite.com and talk about what's in my blood with all you that also understand.
Thanks to you
all!
Mike